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Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Pulmonary Medicine

Background:

  • Spirometry is vital for diagnosing and managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
  • Current spirometry use is infrequent in routine practice, delaying early detection of lung function impairment.
  • Chest radiographs (CXRs) are common but not utilized for pulmonary function assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the accuracy of estimating spirometry parameters from single frontal CXRs using deep learning.
  • To determine if AI can derive pulmonary function data from CXRs without visible imaging abnormalities.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized spirometry data (FVC, FEV1, FEV1/FVC) and corresponding CXRs from 11,837 participants.
  • Employed a deep learning network, pre-trained on ImageNet, with CXRs as input and spirometry values as output.
  • Evaluated model performance using Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) and Pearson's correlation coefficient (r).

Main Results:

  • AI estimation showed strong positive correlations for FVC (r=0.910) and FEV1 (r=0.879).
  • Achieved high accuracy (>90%) in estimating spirometry indices, with MAPEs of 7.59% for FVC and 9.06% for FEV1.
  • Bland-Altman analysis confirmed good agreement between AI-estimated and measured spirometry values for FVC and FEV1.

Conclusions:

  • Frontal CXRs contain significant pulmonary function information detectable by AI.
  • AI estimation of spirometry values from CXRs is accurate and can serve as a valuable tool.
  • This AI approach offers a potential alternative or supplement to traditional spirometry for early pulmonary function assessment.